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Bird people

My connection to birds stretches back generations. My mom’s grandmother, Lillar, was a Native American of Cherokee heritage. Lillar used to net birds for Audubon in the West Texas rangelands. My uncle, James Peacock, was a master woodcarver specializing in transforming inanimate blocks of wood into lifelike birds, mainly waterfowl and shorebirds. When a traumatic […]